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Rx Drug Drop Box

The llbo drop box is located inside the main lobby at the tribal police department.

It is available for public access 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

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PO Box 187
Cass Lake, MN 56633

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200 Sail Star Drive NE
Cass Lake, MN 56633

Hours of Operation

Open 24 hours/7 days
Office Hours
Monday - Friday
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Service Area

Leech Lake Reservation

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Drug Drop Program

The National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators (NADDI) for the third consecutive year has received sponsorship from Endo Pharmaceuticals for our 2013 national Rx Drug Drop Box program.  The 2013 application process ended June 30, 2013. Leech Lake Tribal Police Officer Vincent Brown and Criminal Investigator John Littlewolf were instrumental in this process and were successful in obtaining a free drop box. This drop box is located at the Leech Lake Tribal Police Department 6242 U.S. Hwy#2 in the main lobby for the public to access 24/7. Please see guidelines below for use of the drop box.

Most prescription medications should not be flushed down the toilet or thrown into the trash. The NADDI Rx Drug Drop Box program addresses a vital public health and safety issue. Medicines that languish in home medicine cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high. Studies show that individuals that abuse prescription drugs often obtain them from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinets. 

Through a grant from Endo Pharmaceuticals, the NADDI Rx Drug Drop Box program will increase the ability for patients to easily and properly dispose of unneeded, expired, or unwanted medicines. The box is in response to our successful 2011 Rx Drug Drop Box Program and Take Back events in which millions of dosage units of medicine has been collected from patients and to the growing number of expired, unused and unwanted pharmaceuticals in the home. 

There is a great need for a permanent solution in which these medicines can be properly disposed of quickly and anonymously. The secure mailbox style box can be permanently located inside law enforcement agencies where patients can walk in and deposit their unwanted, expired medicines during normal business hours.

The law enforcement agency must agree to certain guidelines to ensure that the boxes are not tampered with in any way, and to provide a regular schedule for removing the prescription drugs that are deposited by their citizens. These drugs will then be handled in the same manner that other licit and illicit drugs are handled by law enforcement, likely with a court order to destroy the unwanted medications, leading to the ultimate proper destruction.  

Children At Risk for Prescription Meds